Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Micaria  Westring, 1851   35 species

Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova & Genchev, 2022) ||| Czechia   (Muster & Michalik, 2020; Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Brændegaard, 1966) ||| Estonia   (Sammet et al., 2023) ||| Finland   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| France   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Georgia   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Germany   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Greece   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Ireland   (Nolan, 2021a) ||| Italy   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Poland   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Russia, Central   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Russia, Northern   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Russia, Southern   (Muster & Michalik, 2020; Ponomarev et al., 2023) ||| Russia, Western   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Slovakia   (Langraf et al., 2024) ||| Slovenia   (Muster & Michalik, 2020; Kuralt et al., 2024) ||| Sweden   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Switzerland   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna, 2022; Ponomarev et al., 2023) ||| United Kingdom   (Muster & Michalik, 2020) |||
References

Brændegaard J (1966) Edderkopper: Eller Spindlere I Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224 pdf

Dolejš P (2020) Revize materiálu Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) ve sbírkách Národního muzea v Praze [Revision of Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the collection of National Museum, Prague]. Pavouk 49: 14-16 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Hirna A (2022) Rare and poorly known spider species of the Volhynian Polissia (Ukraine) Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum Lviv 37: 215-222 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2008) The spider genus Micaria Westring, 1851 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 215-236 pdf

Kuralt Ž, Pajek Arambašič N, Ferle M, Kostanjšek R (2024) A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – V. Natura Sloveniae 26: 29-42 pdf

Langraf V, Gajdoš P, Purgat P, Štofík J, Šestáková A, Petrovičová K (2024) Epigeic spider and ground beetles (carabid) communities of semi-natural and natural habitats in agricultural landscape in Slovakia. Folia Oecologica 51: 221-237 pdf

Liu B, Zhang F (2025) Revision of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 from China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5645: 1-114 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. pdf

Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298 pdf

Muster C, Michalik P (2020) Cryptic diversity in ant‐mimic Micaria spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and a tribute to early naturalists. Zoologica Scripta 49: 197-209+App. pdf

Naumova M, Genchev V (2022) Review of the spiders, pseudoscorpions and scorpions in the region of Plovdiv, S Bulgaria (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones & Scorpiones). In: Mollov, I., Georgiev, D. & Todorov, O. (eds.) Faunistic diversity of the city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), volume 2 - vertebrates & invertebrates. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Plovdiv, Supplement 2, pp. 83-110. pdf

Nolan M (2021a) First Irish record of Micaria micans (Blackwall) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and revalidation of Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 45: 56-61 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Prokopenko E V, Shmatko V Y (2023) Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and M. pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) in the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Russian Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19: 49-56 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Sammet K, Martinez M R, Tali K, Melts I (2023) New records of arthropods from the priority Natura 2000 habitats in Estonian coastal areas. Check List 19: 1029-1048 pdf

Tullgren A (1946) Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentiliga spinddlar. Araneae Fam 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Stockholm (Entomol Fören.): 141 pp. pdf

Tuneva T K (2007) Review of the family Gnaphosidae in the Ural fauna (Aranei). 5. Genera Micaria Westring, 1851 and Arboricaria Bosmans, 2000. Arthropoda Selecta 15: 229-250 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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